Listing Methods at Runtime in Objective C

By Michael Robinson on January 5, 2012, Filed in: Class | Cocoa | Objective C | Tutorial

Before getting into creating my next Rapid Weaver plugin, I needed to do some experimentation to make sure what I wanted to achieve was possible. Wanting to manipulate some aspects of RWPage objects, I first required a list of methods for the RWPage class.

Thanks to Matt Gallagher’s IMP of the current method entry, I was able to generate my method list with the following code:

#import "objc/objc-class.h"
 
// Iterate over the class and all superclasses
Class currentClass = [RWPage class];
while (currentClass) {
    // Iterate over all instance methods for this class
    unsigned int methodCount;
    Method *methodList = class_copyMethodList(currentClass, &methodCount);
    unsigned int i = 0;
    for (; i < methodCount; i++) {
        NSLog(@"%@ - %@", [NSString stringWithCString:class_getName(currentClass) encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding], [NSString stringWithCString:sel_getName(method_getName(methodList[i])) encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
    }
 
    free(methodList);
    currentClass = class_getSuperclass(currentClass);
}

Method list acquired, the process of whittling it down until I found the one I wanted began.

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